MRC Adds Conspiratorial Twist To Defense Strategy On Trump's (Fourth) Indictment
Topic: Media Research Center

As with his first three indictments, the Media Research Center ran to Donald Trump's defense on his fourth indictment with its usual distraction-and-whataboutism strategy. The first mention of Indictment No. 4 came in an Aug. 15 post by Curtis Houck, who predictably whined that it was being covered and suggested a conspiracy theory that the indictments are some kind of scheme to hide right-wing narratives about alleged Biden scandals:

It’s like clockwork with the liberal media and their friends in government as, following more bad news and new allegations of bribery, corruption, and malfeasance from the Biden family, another Trump indictment dropped Monday night with this one emanating out of Fulton County, Georgia and far-left District Attorney Fani Willis. On Tuesday morning, the morning news shows of ABC, CBS, and NBC shoveled off 33 minutes and 17 seconds for the indictment.

Not surprisingly, the prospect of the indictment in the days leading up to it and the January 6 case gave the liberal networks all the excuses in the world to ignore the Bidens with zero seconds since Sunday morning on CBS and then Monday morning on ABC and NBC.

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[ABC] Senior congressional correspondent Rachel Scott was ebullient at the Trump frenzy (likely seeing as how she doesn’t have to talk about the Bidens, the economy, education, or any other issue that’d be a lefty pitfall), boasting Trump “very likely...could be spending more time in the courtroom than campaigning” in 2024.

Houck offered no reason  for labeling Willis as "far-left."

Nicholas Fondacaro complained that MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell "took to her eponymous show on Tuesday to openly fret that former President Trump’s “opponents” might be suffering from “indictment fatigue” after the district attorney of Fulton County, GA indicted him for the fourth time. Of course, the crux of her concern was that the harm to Trump’s presidential campaign would be minimized." Kevin Tober bizarrely framed Trump's multiple indictments as "election interference" instead of justice:

On the day after former President Donald Trump was indicted for a fourth time by a partisan prosecutor, NBC Nightly News admitted that these indictments were having the effect of full-blown election interference that benefitted the Biden campaign and Democrats in the 2024 election. 

“This fourth indictment puts Mr. Trump's legal troubles on even more of a collision course with his campaign. So far, it appears to have boosted the Republican front-runner,” anchor Lester Holt proclaimed. 

Picking up where Holt left off, senior congressional correspondent Garrett Haake optimistically reported that “the historic fourth indictment of Donald Trump tonight shaking up the 2024 campaign.”

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NBC, like the rest of the left-wing media, was clearly happy that a former President and current candidate was under a constant barrage of indictments. 

They should be careful what they wish for. As Daily Wire host Ben Shapiro wrote on Twitter on Tuesday morning, “Whatever you think of the Trump indictments, one thing is for certain: the glass has now been broken over and over again. Political opponents can be targeted by legal enemies. Running for office now carries the legal risk of going to jail--on all sides.”

Tober offered no evidence that Biden or any other Democrat has committed offenses on a level to which Trump has been credibly accused.

Mark Finkelstein claimed that "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough "took a surprisingly more sober view" of the latest indictment:

In particular, he said that he was concerned that the indictment was brought in heavily Democratic Fulton County.

Scarborough wondered how people would react if, say, a prosecutor in Holmes County, in the Florida panhandle, which voted 87 percent for Trump in 2020, indicted a Democratic president. Joe pondered why the case couldn't have been brought in another county, and if perhaps prosecutors elsewhere declined to proceed.

And if Scarborough's concerns were valid when it comes to Fulton County, which went 72.65 percent for Biden in 2020, how much more so in Washington, D.C., where Jack Smith has brought his January 6th case against Trump? The District of Columbia went for Biden over Trump by the overwhelming margin of 92 percent-5 percent!

Greg Bluestein of the liberal Atlanta Journal-Constitution made the case for the indictment being brought in Fulton County, noting that many of the facts alleged in the indictment, including the infamous "perfect" phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, took place there.

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Scarborough was careful to maintain his liberal street cred by saying no fewer than three times that he found Trump's activity in Georgia "abhorrent," adding, "and appears illegal."

Tim  Graham spent his Aug. 16 column trying to portray Trump as a victim of partisan prosecutors:

Here we go again. The Democrats have unfurled a fourth indictment of former President Donald Trump, this time in Fulton County, Georgia. The number one media-bias complaint on this trend – other than how these indictments “flood the zone” and devolve the Republican presidential primary into a hyperbolic courtroom drama – is that reporters typically fail to identify the prosecutors as Democrats.

The big Associated Press dispatch on this indictment by reporters Kate Brumback and Eric Tucker doesn’t identify District Attorney Fani Willis as a Democrat. They just quote her overzealous copy about how “the defendants engaged in a criminal racketeering enterprise to overturn Georgia’s presidential election result.”

In the penultimate paragraph, the AP duo noted Trump “is campaigning and fundraising around these themes, portraying himself as the victim of Democratic prosecutors out to get him.” But that’s general and not specific.

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This has happened over and over again. New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg isn’t described in media accounts as an elected Democrat who ran on getting Trump. New York state Attorney General Letitia James, who sued Trump over business fraud, isn’t described as an elected Democrat who ran on getting Trump. They don’t talk about Jack Smith’s wife, the filmmaker who made a Netflix gushfest for Michelle Obama.

In this case, Fani Willis ran for D.A in 2020, and almost immediately began an investigation of Trump. All of these Democrat politicians are drawing adulation from Democrats – at the same time as reporters present them as nonpartisans.

Graham didn't explain why it's a bad idea for a prosecutor to voe to bring criminals to justice, or why Trump should be exempt from facing justice even if he committed crimes. He also fails to acknowldedge the flip side of his argument: A Republican prosecutor who refused to prosecute Trump for his crimes should, by his definition, also be accused to acting in a partisan manner.

P.J. Gladnick whined that John Dean appeared on TV to liken Trump's indictments to Watergate:

It's all too predictable. A scandal or merely an apparent scandal involving Republicans happens and one of the Watergate people, usually John Dean or Carl Bernstein, is brought aboard by the media to perform their "Worse than Watergate!" or "Bigger than Watergate!" shtick.

There's nothing at all unusual about Dean invoking Watergate for the umpteenth time as part of his media circus act. Why bring on this 84-year-old pundit, if that's not the point? Dean wrote a book in 2006 that mild-mannered George W. Bush was Worse Than Watergate. Last summer, Dean was the star of a four-part CNN special titled Watergate: Blueprint for a Scandal.

In the case of the indictment of Donald Trump in Fulton County, Georgia (after it was prematurely announced before the grand jury even finished deliberating) CNN's Kaitlan Collins inducted John Dean to perform his "Bigger than Watergate!" act.

Gladnick made no effort to disprove Dean, though.

Nicholas Fondacaro served up another time-count post, complete with conspiratorial suggestion that the indictment "gave the liberal media another excuse to move past and ignore the bribery and corruption allegations swirling around President Biden and his family," though as with Houck, he didn't explain why the Trump indictment shouldn't be covered.

Graham rehashed all of this in his Aug. 16 podcast:

It didn't take long for ABC, CBS, and NBC to devote an hour of stories to obsessing over the fourth Trump indictment -- from Fulton Country, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis. Reporters typically avoid mentioning Willis is an elected Democrat who's made it her primary mission to put Trump in jail. She had help with her indictment from a grand jury selected in Fulton County, which voted Biden over Trump by a margin of 73 to 26 percent. 

CNN and MSNBC obsess over this hour after hour. On networks like NPR, the only person aired criticizing Willis as a partisan is Donald Trump, a man they consider self-discrediting. Congressional Republicans somehow don't have a newsworthy opinion.

NewsBusters Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro joins the show to share the climbing numbers of indictment stories, and MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell worrying out loud about "indictment fatigue" and how voters just hear "white noise" in all the endless cable chatter about Trump. Bill Clinton used to suggest anyone obsessing over scandal wasn't doing the people's business. That spin is nowhere to be found today.

Graham didn't explain in the writeup why anyone should consider Trump as anything but "self-discrediting."

WND Promotes Yet Another Bogus Petition With A Hidden Agenda
Topic: WorldNetDaily

WorldNetDaily has a long history of promoting petitions advocating certain fringe-right beliefs that it claims are signed by experts in the subject but are, in fact, signed almost exclusively by activists and non-experts. That happened again in an anonymously written Aug. 29 "news" article:

One of Joe Biden's ideologies is that there is a climate "emergency."

That's why he's tried to destroy America's fossil fuels industry by banning drilling and pipelines, demanded Americans buy electric cars and imposed all sorts of new requirements for "efficient" appliances.

Now, however, the idea that that "emergency" exists has been debunked.

By more than 1,600 scientists including two Nobel winners.

Just the News has documented a declaration from 1,609 scientists from around the globe stating "there is no climate emergency."

They also state they "strongly oppose the harmful and unrealistic net-zero CO2 policy" that climate emergency activists are now claiming is needed.

The statement from the scientists does not deny that greenhouse gases can be harmful, but challenges the related "hysteria."

The statement comes from CLINTEL, the Global Climate Intelligence Group, which urges that "Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific," Just the News reported.

As with the other petitions WND has promoted, it has been signed mostly by people with no expertise in the subject. Inside Climate News reported:

“Looking at the list of signatories, there are a lot of engineers, medical doctors, and petroleum geologists and almost no actual climate scientists,” said Zeke Hausfather, a longtime research scientist at Berkeley Earth, a non-partisan nonprofit that specializes in analyzing climate data, and the former director of climate and energy programs at the Breakthrough Institute, another independent environmental research firm.

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[Brendan] DeMelle, who has been investigating CLINTEL since it was founded in 2019 by retired professor of geophysics Guus Berkhout and journalist Marcel Crok, said the group has circulated identical petitions almost every year. What he’s uncovered so far is that CLINTEL, and its co-founder Berkhout, have strong political, professional and financial connections to the fossil fuel industry and influential right-wing and libertarian think tanks, many of which are known for working tirelessly over the years to thwart climate action. Those include organizations like the Heartland Institute and the Cato Institute, both of which are funded by Koch Industry money and promote unobstructed free market ideals, including unfettered fossil fuel development.

Euronews similarly reported:

When looking closer at the list of signatories, there are precisely 1,107, including six people who are dead. Less than 1% of the names listed describe themselves as climatologists or climate scientists.

Eight of the signatories are former or current employees of the oil giant Shell, while many other names have links to mining companies. 

One of the signatories is Ivar Giaever, a joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1973 for work on superconductors. However, he has never published any work on climate science. 

According to an independent 2019 count of the declaration's signatories, 21% were engineers, many linked to the fossil fuel industry. Others were lobbyists, and some even worked as fishermen or airline pilots.

WND is not going to tell you any of this, of course, or that CLINTEL appears to be largely funded by fossil-fuel interests, which means trying to pretend climate change isn't a thing is an agenda item that's a condition of its funding.

MRC's Graham Hypocritically Misleads About Government-Media Revolving Door (But Silent On MRC-Fox News Revolving Door)
Topic: Media Research Center

Media Research Center executive Tim Graham began his Aug. 18 column by declaring, "No one in the media elites today is alarmed at a 'revolving door' between the 'objective media' and partisan politics. Politics seems more like a qualification than a disqualification." Graham is being utterly hypocritical about this, of course, given that there is a revolving door between the MRC and Fox News; as we've documented, several former MRC staffers are currently employed as writers and editors at Fox News, many of whom were hired directly out of the MRC. Since Graham is censoring that news, we don't get to hear him explain how Fox News could possibly be "fair and balanced" when it's hiring so many partisan activists. Instead, Graham played guilt-by-association in attacking new NBC "Meet the Press" host Kristen Welker because her parents donated to Democrats:

Welker registered as a Democrat in Rhode Island and then D.C., and her mother and father Julie and Harvey, have donated tens of thousands of dollars to Democratic candidates. It’s close to $20,000 to Barack Obama alone. There was also $3,300 for Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign and $2,100 for Hillary Clinton’s doomed 2016 run against Trump. Her mother unsuccessfully ran in the Democrat [sic] primary for Philadelphia City Council in 1999.

Graham did not explain what possible relevance Welker's parents' political donations have to her work. And he's being hypocritical here too; during the 2016 presidential campaign, the MRC complained a lot that the extremism of Ted Cruz's father was pointed out (as well as a rumor that he hung out with Lee Harvey Oswald).

Graham went on to whine about former Democratic White House  press secretaries getting TV jobs, then claimed that Republian press secretaries are different:

MSNBC is becoming the home of former Biden-Harris spokespeople. Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki hosts a show on Sunday, and former Kamala Harris spokeswoman Symone Sanders has a show on Saturday. Alicia Menendez, the daughter of Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) has a show on both weekend days. Rev. Al Sharpton never actually revolved – he keeps his racial ambulance-chasing job on weekdays.

CNN must be jealous. They just hired Biden communications director Kate Bedingfield right out of the White House, and also picked up Jamal Simmons from the Kamala Harris press shop. CNN reported in February that Bedingfield was “expected to be a consultant to Biden’s anticipated reelection campaign,” but they talked her into a different kind of public relations.

Republicans do this, too, but differently. Bush White House press secretary Dana Perino joined Fox News – after Bush left office. Trump White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany joined Fox News – after her president left office.  All of these newly arriving Bidenites are salted in cable news to share the Democrat [sic] talking points while their Biden-Harris team runs for re-election.

Graham is lying via cherry-picked examples. He avoided noting that Trump's first press secretary, Sean Spicer, got a Newsmax show in March 2020, while his former boss was still in office, and that his successor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, got a Fox News commentator gig in August 2019, just two months after leaving the White House. Graham also conveniently omitted the fact that both Perino and McEnany worked through the end of their respective White Houses (though not quite in the case of McEnany, who abandoned her job after the Capitol riot), making it impossible for them to get a TV gig to advocate for an active administration.

Graham also complained about the daughter of former Obama White House adviser Valerie Jarrett getting a job as a co-host of NBC's "Today." But he was silent not only about how the daugher of former Republican President George H.W. Bush, Jenna Bush Hager, is also a "Today" co-host (check out her queso recipe!) but about another in-house example: The daughter of the editor of the MRC's former "news" division CNSNews.com, Terry Jeffrey, works for right-wing Republcan Sen. Ted Cruz, which resulted in CNS publishing dozens of articles promoting Cruz before its shutdown earlier this year.

Graham concluded with one more hypocritical whine: "The only real question is whether the former Biden publicists sound any more like Biden publicists than the 'objective' folks who came up the ranks in an 'old-school' way, with a decade or three inside the 'news' business. It’s often hard to tell the difference." But Graham and the MRC do not practice what they preach, which makes Graham's partisan moralizing even more hollow.

NEW ARTICLE: WND Is Proud Of The Proud Boys
Topic: WorldNetDaily
WorldNetDaily has worked hard to downplay the violent extremism of the Proud Boys and actions by group members during the Capitol riot -- and it's even reprinting dishonest articles from the discredited Gateway Pundit to pump them up. Read more >>

MRC Disgustingly Cheers Harassment Of Ex-Twitter Executive, Is Bizarrely Angry He's Pointing It Out
Topic: Media Research Center

Yoel Roth, former head of trust and safety at Twitter, wrote an essay for the New York Times about how Donald  Trump and Elon Musk targeted him for harassment -- which included Musk maliciously suggesting that he was a pedophile -- the result of which was that "I’ve lived with armed guards outside my home and have had to upend my family, go into hiding for months and repeatedly move." The point of his essay, according to Mediaite, was that "The central premise of his argument is that Twitter, and other platforms, are under attack from forces that wish to weaponize them to spew hate and division while recruiting for authoritarian causes.

Naturally, the Musk-fluffers at the Media Research Center tought this was absolutely hilarious. They believe Roth deserves to be harassed -- unto death, apparently -- for the sin of  trying to protect users from hateand harassment. Gabriela Pariseau wrote a hateful Sept. 21 screed headlined "WHINER":

Twitter’s former head of Trust and Safety Yoel Roth wrote a New York Times op-ed that can only be described as one long whiny self-victimizing rant. 

From the headline to the last word, Roth pathetically begged readers for pity from while complaining about being attacked for censoring former president Donald Trump. “I Was Attacked by Trump and Musk. It Was a Strategy to Change What You See Online,” the headline read before The Times  edited it to be something less laughable.

Yes, the man who quite literally led the department at Twitter that changed and controlled “what you see online” now doesn’t like the taste of his own medicine. “Backed by fans on social media, Mr. Trump publicly attacked me. Two years later, following his acquisition of Twitter and after I resigned my role as the company’s head of trust and safety, Elon Musk added fuel to the fire,”. he wrote.

Roth noted being harassed by internet trolls after Trump and his staff called attention to him and the censorship he and his team relentlessly carried out against users who bucked leftist narratives. “I’ve learned that what happened to me wasn’t an accident,” Roth claimed. “It was a strategy — one that affects not just targeted individuals like me, but all of us, as it is rapidly changing what we see online.” The lack of self-awareness is deafening.

As is Pariseau's lack of awareness that she's endorsing threats and violence against someone who helped run a social media websites. Imagine how giddy Pariseau and the rest of the MRC will be if someone actually murders Roth after being incited by Trump and Musk. She also curiously failed to mention that Musk falsely and maliciously smeared Roth as a pedophile, and she failed to explain how, exactly, it was "laughable" for Roth to point out that his dehumanization was part of a strategy by Musk to make Twitter more chaotic and hate-filled.

Pariseau's own hate-filled whinefest continued as  she complained that Roth pointed out that lies and hate are spreading more aggressively on Twitter:

Roth spent the majority of his complaint lamenting that the so-called “safety” structures he and his team built to censor content are being dismantled. 

“Universities are cutting back on efforts to quantify abusive and misleading information spreading online,” he wrote. “Social media companies are shying away from making the kind of difficult decisions my team did when we intervened against Mr. Trump’s lies about the 2020 election.”

With dramatic flair, Roth added “These attacks on internet safety and security come at a moment when the stakes for democracy could not be higher.” 

It would be remiss not to mention Roth’s dismissal of The Twitter Files which repeatedly implicate him. “The files were hyped by Mr. Musk as a groundbreaking form of transparency, purportedly exposing for the first time the way Twitter’s coastal liberal bias stifles conservative content.” Citing TechDirt journalist Mike Masnick he responded claiming “in the end ‘there was absolutely nothing of interest’ in the documents, and what little there was had  significant factual errors.” 

Well, Mr. Roth, if the Twitter Files are significantly inaccurate, please enlighten the public.

Um, Gabriela, you just quoted Roth doing exactly that -- and you didn't disprove him.

Pariseau closed by ranting: "While the U.S. government working with Twitter to silence Americans’ discussion, memes, genuine concerns, and questions may be of no interest to you, to many Americans it is an egregious violation of the First Amendment that should never happen again." She didn't expalin why trying to stop lies and hate on Twitter is an "egregious violation of the First Amendment that should never happen again" -- or just how happy she will be if somebody murders Roth.

WND's Massie Making Weird Claims About Race Again
Topic: WorldNetDaily

Mychal Massie wants you to believe that there is no such thing as race -- but he sure spends a lot of time obsessively attacking black people despite being a black person himself, in the grand tradition of black WND columnists who sound like white segregationists. He ranted in his Aug. 7 column:

The fixation upon the mythical and corrosive idiocy that reduces human beings to crayon colors remains the most destructive influence in America today. With that said, I argue that racism is not systemic, as the pimps and prostitutes of inculcated marginalization would have people believe. However, ignorance and thoughtless gullibility are not only systemic, they're generationally bred into the psyche of people given over to the inability to reason logically.

I admit there was a time I used the assignations that had been instituted to further the social divide. This is where Christendom very much gets it wrong today. Romans 16:17 (KJV) reads: "Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them."

Christendom is to diligently observe those who cause divisions and stumbling blocks. We are to avoid all unnecessary contact with them. That specifically means we are not to embrace their divisionist practices and complaints intended to destroy America from within, as has been the neo-Leninist design. Little could anyone have realized just how thoroughly the weaponization of the fallacious construct misidentified as a skin color would lead to the deconstructing of America on every level.

Massie then attacked black activist W.E.B. Du Bois for pointing out that black people exist:

This trap started with Du Bois inventing the brilliant, albeit Satanic, creation of the assignation "colored peoples" early in the 20th century. From there America was never to be socially the same. This single act, I argue, changed forever the trajectory of the American people. That single act by Du Bois was the weaponizing of pigmentation for socio-political gain.

This move was the very definition of insidious. It was quickly absorbed into the bloodstream of America and has metastasized exponentially since then. It continues to do so unabated today; in many cases, under cover of good intentions.

It has allowed for the bastardization of not only the history of America, but the selective history of the world.

Massie didn't explain how, exactly, Du Bois fighting for equal rights was a "bastardization" of America. Massie then went the can't-we-all-get along route:

Americans aren't black, white, red, yellow, chartreuse or any other made up color. We're Americans, and as such we're one people, one nation, under [one] God, with liberty and justice for all. The problem is, there can be no justice for all if there is a focus on the predisposition to prioritize people by crayon colors and foreign nationalities that detract and/or supplant the unity of one people identified singularly as one nationality, i.e., Americans.

Massie is sounding a lot like the "Colbert Report"-era Stephen Colbert, when he played a blowhard right-wing commentator: "I just want to say that I'm not a racist. I don't even see race. Not even my own. People tell me I'm white and I believe them because I just devoted six minutes to explaining how I'm not a racist!"

Massie closed by ranting about an alleged "pathetic attempt to bully me by one of the leading left-wing commie radical Soros front groups whose responsibility it is to sponsor reprisal against those such as myself who aren't afraid to speak the truth about the planned orchestration of using melanin as a weapon against their enemies." But the link he supplied is broken, so we can't see whether he was talking about us (as one of the few people who rmake a point of reading the silly things he writes).

Massie had a similar meltdown in his Aug. 14 column:

Suffice it to say there exists within the population of those who boast of their ancestral heritage as being that of slaves, an unchecked zeitgeist of incongruous parallactic.

It's a social dysmorphic that demands a Vatican-trained team of exorcists to dislodge the grotesquely asphyxiating mentality that subscribes to one-sided blind hatred for the people and country to whom they truthfully owe their all.

I've asked many of their persuasion, but have yet to receive an answer: Where would they be if their ancestors hadn't allegedly come here as slaves from the jungles? When I think of early Africans, Caribbean and West Indian settlers to America – before Democrats commercialized slavery and/or former slaves – I think Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglas, George Washington Carver, Percy L. Julian, James Durham, Daniel Hale Williams, Norbert Rillieux, St. Elmo Brady, Garrett Morgan et al.

One of the most grievous consequences of the successful inculcation of the Erebusic inclusion of pernicious lies and the recension of factual history into a political construct of baseless heterodoxies successfully introduced into classrooms, has been a multi-year plan of occlusion to modernity.

Yes, Massie is beating us with his thesaurus again. Massie went on to blame black people for purportedly hating white people for no reason, as opposed to being pointing out that the white ruling class systemically discriminated against black people for centuries:

Paraphrasing the late Daniel Patrick P. Moynihan: The social alienation among the [so-called] black lower classes is matched and probably enhanced by a virulent form of anti-white feeling among portions of the large and prospering melanin-identified of their middle class. His words were prescient.

But by the 1970s, the trend of civility had changed. Moynihan wrote: "The incidence of anti-social behavior among young black males continues to be extraordinarily high." This trend continues unabated today, the difference being it's rewarded as culturally acceptable and rebranded as hip-hop culture.

Massie further tried to blame welfare and abortion for decimating black families:

Those people were proud of their work ethic and placed a high premium upon social propriety. But, with the introduction of pigment-based affirmative action and the fashionable acceptance of welfare and husbandless/fatherless homes, the organized deconstruction of the Negro family was fully underway. Add to that, the push to have children as a means of receiving more government money, i.e., welfare.

The payback for the initial payout has increased in return by untold hundreds of percent thanks to abortion and the industrialized systematic extermination of Negro children.

This has wrought a culture where self-segregation is also applauded and encouraged by universities, colleges and public schools across America.

Massie concluded with his own odd take on civil rights:

What I walk away with is: There never was a need to fight for civil rights. There was a need to uphold the Constitution. And these people who are today promoting segregation are the progeny of the same socio-political philosophy that Democrats embraced when they co-opted and weaponized the KKK.

It shouldn't take a court ruling to end the reprobate behavior of these Negro con-artists and liars; if they had any decency they would never engineer such racist barbarism nor allow themselves to be exploited in such a way.

Of course, equal rights for non-white people were not specifically enumerated in the Constiution as originally written -- something Massie didn't mention.

MRC Whines That Trump Dead-Enders Are Facing Consequences
Topic: Media Research Center

The Media Research Center's Clay Waters huffed in an Aug. 18 post:

New York Times "democracy reporter" Nick Corasaniti adopted a vengeful tone in his report on some Trump allies getting their legal comeuppance. The gloating was even in the headline on Wednesday: “After Years of Lies, Election Deniers Face Something New: Consequences.”

Waters didn't explain why it was "vengeful" for people to face the consequences of their actions. When the article pointed out that one of the schemes used by thetruthers was 'filing reams of frivolous lawsuits," Waters complained: "Charged for filing lawsuits someone somewhere considers to be frivolous? Aren’t lawsuits a routine method for liberals to get their way? It’s certainly easier going through the courts then actually getting legislation passed." Waters cited no "liberal" court action that has been found similarly "frivolous," He also failed to explain why he believes no Trump-related lawsuit should have been deemed as such, and he did not follow up on his suggestion that partisan intent has something to do with all those "frivolous" findings.

Waters then ranted that it was "sinister" for the reporter to forward the argument -- made by legal experts -- that violent pro-Trump insurrectionists feeling the full force of the law after the Capitol riot is discouraging others from trying to stage similar protests out of fear or arrest. Rather than explain why, exactly, this was "sinister" -- actually, most people would consider law enforcement discouraging people from committing crimes and being violent to be a good thing -- he resorted to his usual whataboutism: "In January 2017, feminists in pink pussy hats protested Trump’s looming inauguration at the Women’s March in D.C. and were greeted with the Times by joy, not the threat of arrest. The Black Lives Matter protests often devolved into rioting, but that violence was underplayed by the paper."

He concluded by pretending to read the mind of the reporter, claiming that he "more or less admitted that the fourth indictment against Trump was a legal stretch, though of course he couched the revelation in terms that wouldn’t frighten his liberal readership," allegedly by stating that "bringing criminal charges for trying to overturn an election is relatively uncharted legal terrain."

The actual stretch here was Waters trying to mine this article as yet another reason to hate the Times. But that's his job, so his paycheck mandates that he manufacture that hate any way he can.

WND's Farah Tries To Piggyback 'Sound Of Freedom' With ... A Lame Bumper Sticker
Topic: WorldNetDaily

One of Joseph Farah's last columns before he mysteriously disappeared from day-to-day writing duties at WorldNetDaily -- an absence WND has yet to publicly explain -- was an Aug. 28 piece that attemped to pggyback on WND's enthusiasm for the right-wing film "Sound of Freedom" with his dated vision that people still care about bumper stickers, echoing his "Thou Shalt Not Steal Elections" bumper sticker introduced a couple months earlier:

Jim Caviezel, the man who starred in "Sound of Freedom," says the biggest market for child sex is right here in the good ol' USA. But you're not supposed to know that.

When President Donald J. Trump saw the film he was moved. In an action that should be universally applauded, he expressed his unequivocal support for the fight against this horrific crime. If elected president next year, he declared, "I will return all trafficked children to their families in their home countries and without delay."

Caviezel, who portrayed Jesus in another box-office bonanza, called Trump the "new Moses" for his promise "to save children the likes of which you have never seen."

What do Moses and Trump have in common? Babies were slaughtered in Egypt. And they are being slaughtered today in the United States and around the world.

To help mark this important film, to honor it and remember it, to steel its truth for a generation, and to help us never forget the children "the likes of which you have never seen," we bring you this bumper sticker from WND.

"THOU SHALT NOT TRAFFIC CHILDREN"

Not even a terribly original take on his previous election-related sticker. Farah on to complain about the movie being unfairly criticized -- while not actually explaining the criticism of the film and Caviezel being very QAnon-adjacent -- and slagged a more popular movie:

Why is the world only now taking the "Sound of Freedom" so seriously? Why have we waited this long for this movie to be made? Why are there such lies being told about it despite its unconventional success?

What questions do you have to ask Google to find out about it? What television shows do you have to watch to find out it's been the most popular movie in the United States – and the most endearing and disturbing?

That's not true. Perhaps the most disturbing movie is the one that replaced it as the highest-grossing movie of the year – "Barbie." Do the kids and adults seeing it realize what they are watching in the opening scenes? Abortion. Hatred of children. It's disgusting from beginning to end. Just watch Jonathan Cahn's YouTube video called "The Mystery Of Barbie, Ishtar, and Smashed Babies!"

We'll get to that video at a later date since WND also promoted it. Farah concluded by plugging thte WND online store as well as the previous bumper sticker: "It's a message that resonates with every American more each day as the media play the drumbeat that Trump will somehow not be eligible to contest for the presidency next year due to his indictments. This would be another attempt to steal an election from him."

WND republished Farah's column a few days later, on Sept. 5, without explanation.

Obama Derangement Syndrome Continues At The MRC
Topic: Media Research Center

The Media Research Center's collective lingering case of Obama Derangement Syndrome has continued to linger throughout this year. Some recent examples:

• A May 11 post by Alex Christy complained; "For the third episode of Iconic America, PBS explored the history and meaning of the Gadsden Flag and during the portion covering the Tea Party protests during the Obama era, the assorted cast sought to reduce those protests to racists and other bigots. ... These normal protestors of all races were lumped in with birthers who wanted to “send him back to Kenya” and conspiracy theorists who claimed Obama is a Muslim." We dont' recall the MRC previously making a distinction between "normal" Obama-hating protesters and the "conspiracy theorists."
• Christy groused in a May 15 post that "The cast of CBS Mornings oohed and aahed on Tuesday in a response to their interview of Barack Obama where the former president pushed Australian-style gun control and lamented that networks like CBS do not have the power they once did. Nate Burleson claimed the interview made him want to be a better journalist, Tony Dokoupil claimed Obama’s views on guns were “historically” correct and Obama donor and vacation pal Gayle King claimed Obama’s character, integrity, and intelligence are never to be questioned.
• A June 23 post by Christy whined about an interivew Obama did with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, particiularly that he "continued to ramble about the GOP and “the siloing of information” and how people who watch Fox News live in a different world than people who read the New York Times," further grumbling that "Most of the interview was full of softballs."
• Four days later, Christy whined that "racial provocateur Wesley Lowery" pointed out that racism in the U.S. didn't stop because Obama was elected president and that there was a bit of a white backlash to it; he insisted that under Lowery's thinking, "The country is thus in a no-win situation. Even if both parties elect black people, it doesn’t matter, because Lowery won’t allow himself to see people as anything other than racists." Christy also claimed that "In reality, Lowery and his interviewers only showed that not everybody likes Barack Obama, high crime, or supports gender ideology."
• A July 30 post by Clay Waters complained about another TV appearance by the "far-left race-baiting" Lowery "about his new book on how white Americans and the Republican Party became scared and possibly dangerous racists after Barack Obama’s election.? Waters made no attempt to disprove anything Lowery said.

An interview with the author of a 6-year-old biography of Obama, however, set off serious Obama deragnement bells, and Tim Graham spent his Aug. 9 column defending the book and bashing Obama yet again:

The media deification of Barack Obama has really never ended. His election to the presidency in 2008 was treated as a milestone, like man landing on the moon. Allegedly objective journalists lined up in every studio and on every front page to do him homage.

It wasn’t journalism. It was more like idolatry. It was like Bryant Gumbel harshly replying in 1989 to new information about Rev. Martin Luther King’s adultery. He said "When the truth collides with a legend, print the legend."

This line came to mind in reading a recent Tablet magazine interview with liberal historian David Garrow, a Martin Luther King specialist. Garrow's massive 2017 tome on Obama – titled Rising Star – was blasted by New York Times chief book critic Michiko Kakutani. She argued his epilogue was like a “Republican attack ad.” This is comical, since Garrow's epilogue recounted quotes from, among others, liberals at the Times and The Washington Post.

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[David] Samuels suggests Garrow’s book was scorned because it highlighted “a remarkable lack of curiosity” about a man who was “treated less like a politician and more like the idol of an inter-elite cult.” It underlined that as Obama decided he wanted to be president one day, he realized having a white wife would be an obstacle.

Obama’s memoir told a story about taking his composite girlfriend to a “very angry play” by a black playwright and she came out “talking about why black people were angry all the time. I said it was a matter of remembering – nobody asks why Jews remember the Holocaust, I think I said.”

[...]

This might seem like fragments of ancient history, but every negative fragment about Obama has the potential to upset the cemented mythology. The Obama of myth never compromises his ideals (or invents personal history) to get ahead. That’s why book critics accuse authors of writing “Republican attack ads” when they throw a negative shadow. “When the truth collides with a legend, print the legend.” 

Actually, it is ancient history, given that Obama left office nearly seven years ago. Graham just looks like someone who's unable to let go of a grudge. If there's one bit of comfort to be taken from his screed, it's that he didn't go the salacious WorldNetDaily route and obsess over an alleged statement in a letter to an old girlfriend in which he alluded to gay sex. That was left to Ben Shapiro who made sure to know in a syndicated column published by the MRC on Aug. 11 that "Obama wrote letters to a girlfriend in which he “repeatedly fantasizes about making love to men.” He did serve up more grudgey Graham stuff, huffing that Obama's "victory -- that triumph -- came at the expense of the American people, who were promised a racial conciliator and a man of honor by a media invested in that lie. When the truth materialized and our institutions continued to perpetuate the lie, our institutions collapsed. We live in the era of Barack Obama still." somehow, that collapse is never the fault of righ-wingers like Graham and Shapiro who hated Obama so intensely that they refused to cooperate with him in any way lest he be seen as a successful president.

Newsmax's Hirsen Dishonestly Frames Criticism Of Great Barrington Declaration
Topic: Newsmax

James Hirsen wrote in an Aug. 31 Newsmax column:

It’s been almost three and a half years since public health officials first urged the locking down of America in order to prevent the spread of a virus.

As talk of a possible repeat scenario grows louder, it might be prudent to stop and reflect on what we have gone through psychologically, socially, and emotionally, particularly our children.

When lockdowns were implemented, some prominent professionals questioned the policy.

For doing so, they were maligned and sometimes even censored.

Dr. Martin Kulldorff (Harvard), Dr. Sunetra Gupta (Oxford), and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (Stanford) are three highly qualified epidemiologists, who at a pivotal point in history came together to publish a document.

The document, titled the "Great Barrington Declaration," made the case that lockdowns have a deleterious effect upon children.

Additionally, an argument was made that denying children the opportunity to attend school was particularly harmful.

The scholars were subsequently disparaged by public officials and certain media figures, as if there were an effort in place to avoid open debate of the document’s content.

But Hirsen is dishonestly hiding the full contents of the document, nor did he offer any evidence that  Bhattacharya and the other signatories were criticized solely because of the document discussing how COVID lockdowns might affect children. In fact, the key statement of the Great Barrington Declaration is that COVID should be allowed to spread to develop "herd immunity" -- a dangerous proposition at a time when the virus was still killing many people daily, vaccines had not yet been developed, and it was unclear that herd immunity would even work (and it doesn't, given the need for regular vaccinations).

Rather than discuss that crucial aspect of the declaration -- which, arguably, what was most criticized -- Hirsen chose to narrowly focus on the effects on children and praised the signatories as heroes for being proven right on that (despite, again, offering no evidence that anyone criticized that aspect ofthe declartion):

In retrospect, the doctors and other professionals who were disparaged and/or censored were accurate in their assessments of the negative effects of lockdowns on school-aged children.

Millions of young people could have been spared the negative psychological, social, and emotional ramifications of the lockdowns.

Heaven forbid that we have a repeat of this history.

Then again, Hirsen defended far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for ranting that a proposed COVID passport would be a "mark of the beast," so maybe he's not the person anyobne should look to for cogent commentary on COVID-related issues.

Derangement: WND Wildly Accuses Biden Of Child Sex Trafficking
Topic: WorldNetDaily

WorldNetDaily took its Biden Derangement Syndrome to a new level in the August issue of its sparsely read Whistleblower magazine, actually accuses President Biden of engagingin sex trafficking of children. Thepromo copy for the issue begins with the usual (for WND, anyway) anti-Biden ranting:

It’s shocking, though in no way overstated, to conclude that Americans today are living through a time of total spiritual warfare, when virtually all of the most contentious and consequential issues are neither political, ideological nor psychological. They are flat-out spiritual – good versus evil.

There’s the early sexualization of innocent children in the nation’s public schools. And the mass-hysteria transgender craze that seduces mentally fragile teenagers into undergoing mutilating and irreversible surgeries. And the love affair with killing human babies in their mother’s womb. And the massive foreign invasion of America, purposefully engineered by a senile, forever-lying and epically corrupt president. And the ever-growing persecution of law-abiding, God-fearing Americans branded as “violent extremists” and “domestic terrorists.” And the pretend existential “climate change” crisis, and the pretend “white supremacy” crisis, and so much more.

The copy then directly accuses Biden of sex trafficking, with the help of "Sound of Freedom" film subject Tim Ballard:

In light of this, it’s doubly shocking to realize – as Tim Ballard, who has led many missions rescuing sex-trafficked children around the world, points out – that the Biden administration is actually enabling and promoting the trafficking and sexual slavery of children.

[...]

Ballard’s concerns are confirmed by Tara Lee Rodas, a Health and Human Services whistleblower who testified in April before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security and Enforcement. Because of the Biden administration's border policies, she said, a staggering 85,000 migrant children are missing in America.

“Today,” in the United States of America, the whistleblower testified, “children will work overnight shifts at slaughterhouses, factories, restaurants to pay their debts to smugglers and traffickers. Today, children will be sold for sex. Today, children will call a hotline to report they are being abused, neglected, and trafficked.”

Under Biden, she pleaded, “the U.S. government has become the middleman in a large-scale, multi-billion-dollar child trafficking operation.”

WND has no actual direct evidence of this, of course.

This was accompanied by the usual hate-filled screed making the same points by managing editor David Kupelian, which was published at WND on Aug. 22:

The Biden administration policy of intentionally engineering a full-scale foreign invasion of America across her southern border – which in turn has facilitated what a key federal whistleblower calls a “large-scale, multi-billion-dollar child trafficking operation” with “the U.S. government" as "the middleman” – is evil, most normal people would agree.

This mega-crisis resulted in the passage of Republican-led legislation last month to slow down the endless waves of exploited humans illegally entering the U.S. by extending Donald Trump's border wall. But as everyone now knows, to sabotage the legislation Biden has been essentially throwing away $300 million worth of taxpayer-funded border-wall components by auctioning them off for next to nothing, just to make sure the wall is never built, and that the alien invasion – including the cartel-financed sex trafficking of countless young children – continues.

Since the issue was inspired by "Sound od Freedom," Kupelian made sure to rehash WND's complaints about criticism of the movie:

Likewise, many left-leaning media outlets have taken to attacking “Sound of Freedom,” some claiming the anti-child trafficking blockbuster is a "QAnon fantasy." For example, Rolling Stone’s review – headlined ''Sound Of Freedom' Is a Superhero Movie for Dads With Brainworms' – claims “The QAnon-tinged thriller about child-trafficking is designed to appeal to the conscience of a conspiracy-addled boomer." The Guardian newspaper similarly describes “Sound of Freedom” as “the QAnon-adjacent thriller seducing America.”

Of course, Kupelian refused to admit that the film is very much QAnon-adjacent or disclose that star Jim Caviezel is an extremist QAnon adherent. He also threw a little Clinton derangement as well, via Jeffrey Epstein:

The most familiar albeit infamous elite example, of course, would be Jeffrey Epstein and his so-called “Pedophile Island” in the U.S. Virgin Islands, which served as the hub of an international sex trafficking ring exploiting girls as young as 11. It was frequently visited by world celebrities, from Prince Andrew to – according to multiple sources – Bill Clinton. In 2019, Epstein died suspiciously in a New York detention center while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. Officials insisted he had committed suicide, although numerous forensic experts claimed suicide was virtually impossible based on Epstein’s injuries, and there was enormous motivation for famous participants to want him silenced. After all, Epstein’s private Boeing 727, the “Lolita Express,” often took famous guests to his private island. And according to flight logs, Bill Clinton traveled to various locations on Epstein’s plane a total of 26 times, at least five times without his Secret Service detail.

Kupelian didn't mention that his hero, Donald Trump, also partied with Epstein and hung out on "Pedophile Island." Yet he talks only about Clinton. What is Kupelian trying to hide?

All this Biden derangement and Kupelian's selective memory tells us yet again that WND shouldn't be taken seriously.

NEW ARTICLE -- New Press Secretary, Same MRC Hate: June-July 2023
Topic: Media Research Center
The Media Research Center not only kept up its usual hatred of White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, it also worked in a little hypocrisy about violations of the Hatch Act by press secretaries. Read more >>

MRC Still Pretending RFK Jr. Is Victim Of 'Censorship,' Conspiracy Theories
Topic: Media Research Center

Following its blitz of coverage of his appearance at a congressional hearing -- while also trying to clean up after an anti-Semitic remark he made -- the Media Research Center continued to work to portray Robert Kennedy Jr. as a victim of "censorship" (even though all social media is doing is responding to his false anti-vaxxer conspiracy theories). Luis Cornelio used a July 24 post to dishonestly frame correcting false information as "election interference" while praising Fox News for sticking to the right-wing narrative about what was "eclipsed" in the hearing:

Democrats are already scavenging for ways to use Big Tech to interfere with the 2024 presidential election, one lawmaker warned.

Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) had some strong words against Big Tech’s censorship of free speech during a Friday interview on Fox News’s America’s Newsroom. Buck raised the alarm that Democrats are pushing to censor Robert F. Kennedy Jr. because of the challenge he poses to the Biden regime amid the 2024 nomination process. “Obviously, they are censoring him because he is a threat to Joe Biden,” Buck said of Kennedy’s appearance during a hearing before the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on Thursday.

Buck didn’t mince his words in reaction to Democrat members of Congress and their reactions to the hearing. “There is a little irony that they’re having a hearing on censorship and trying to censor a witness,” Buck said. “Obviously, they are censoring the witness because he is a threat to Joe Biden. He’s polling somewhere in the 15 to 20% range. That scares Democrats that someone is going to pull votes away from Joe Biden and challenge him.”

Fox News Co-Host Dana Perino brought up the eclipsed but intended subject of the hearing – Big Tech censorship. “The fighting and argumentation between the Democrats and RJF Jr. yesterday sort of overshadowed the big picture about the hearing, which is this question about Big Tech and censorship,” Perino told Buck, before asking, “Do you think there are changes afoot when it comes to how the government is going to react and interact with these companies?”

Cornelio didn't ask why a Republican congressman and a right-wing "news" channel are so concerned about allowing a Democrat to be able to day whatever he wants.

We've noted how the MRC's Gabriela Pariseau bestowed even more victimhood on Kennedy through one of those selective "Twitter files" releases. Cornelio played the victmhood card for Kennedy again in a July 31 post:

YouTube’s election interference couldn’t be any more clear, as it continues to censor President Joe Biden’s primary challenger.

YouTube decided to yet again remove a video interview of Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, citing an alleged violation of its “Community Guidelines.”

The 48-minute interview, conducted by O’Keefe Media Group CEO James O’Keefe, delved into topics contentious to the approved narrative of the Biden regime, including COVID-19, the First Amendment and the collusion between Big Tech and the federal government to assault free speech.

O’Keefe, often a subject of Big Tech censorship himself, took to Twitter to condemn the news. 

“YouTube removed this video for ‘medical misinformation,’” O’Keefe said on July 28, before sharing the full video on Twitter. “Thankfully, you can still watch it here on the public square.” In a separate tweet addressed to YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, O’Keefe asked, “Tell me where in the video it hurt you @nealmohan.” O’Keefe additionally shared the interview, titled “Lawsuits, Anthony Fauci, Fear, FBI, Becoming Commander-in-Chief and more!” on Rumble, a video-hosting platform that opposes draconian censorship.

Cornelio leaned hard into the whole victimhood thing:

RFK Jr. also called out the un-American nature of the censorship assault. “Americans know, you know, innately that we're not supposed to that the government is not supposed to censor us,” the Democratic candidate for president added. “[Y]et we put up with it we said, ‘Okay those guys are scaring us and we need to shut them up. The Constitution doesn't have a pandemic exception. The First Amendment doesn't have a pandemic exception.”

YouTube’s latest assault against Robert F. Kennedy comes a week and a half after RFK Jr. testified before the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government to detail the harrowing experience of facing constant censorship led by the federal government.

According to MRC Free Speech America’s exclusive CensorTrack database, YouTube has targeted RKF Jr. nine times since he first announced his bid for the Democratic nomination for president in 2024.

Cornelio failed to detail the statements Kennedy made that were deemed "medical misinformation," nor did he inform his readers that Kennedy has made numerous false and misleading claims about COVID and its vaccines. Cornelio also failed to explain why his employer is so aggressively defending a Democratic presidential candidate or why he has an entry in its biased CensorTrack database, which is all about manufacturing dubious data to portray right-wingers as victims of "censorship."

Catherine Salgado went Godwin on one of the groups who call out Kennedy's misinformation in an Aug. 7 post touting how right-wing Rep. Jim Jordan is targeting the Center for Countering Digital Hate for alleged "potential censorship collusion with the federal government": "Jordan specifically zeroed in on CCDH’s COVID-19-era report on 'The Disinformation Dozen,' which led to censorship of users like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that CCDH labeled as prominent 'anti-vaxxers.' Media Research Center founder L. Brent Bozell previously called CCDH 'digital brownshirts.'" Salgado identified no false claim about Kennedy made in the CCDH report.

An Aug. 18 post by Autumn Johnson similarly smeared the CCDH as "digital brownshirts," again complaining that the group's list of COVID misinformers included "notably Democratic Party Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has a history of questioning the efficacy of vaccines." She too failed to mention that Kennedy also has a history of spreading falsehoods and misinformation.

Tom Olohan gushed over Kennedy spouting right-wing narratives on a right-wing channel in an Aug. 29 post, while added a talking point he didn't repeat:

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. laid into three massive corporations for pushing a key element of the American Dream out of reach for many American families. 

During an August 27 interview with Newsmax host Eric Bolling, presidential candidate RFK Jr. went after the ESG-friendly giants for making it more difficult and expensive for Americans and families to own a home. “These three giant companies, BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard, they own 88% of the S&P 500, there’s something wrong with that,” he said.  “And they’ve now targeted single-family homes, so the reason you’re seeing these homes go off the charts in price.” 

After naming the predatory behemoths, RFK Jr. broke down how it happens. “So many people that you know and I know have had the experience that they're about to put an offer in on the home or they put one in, somebody who swoops in with a cash offer and takes it away from them and they try to figure out who it is and it's an LLC,” the Democrat [sic] presidential candidate added. “Well those LLCs are ultimately owned by those three big companies, and you know they're on trajectory now to own 60% of the single family homes in this country by 2030.”

[...]

While these three corporations have certainly made it more difficult for young families to own homes, they are also infamous for pushing environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing on Americans and American companies. RFK Jr. is only the latest politician to sound the alarm, following testimony from public officials before Congress.

Jeffrey Lord spent his Sept. 16 column trying to manufacture a conspiracy theory that the Biden administration is ordering media outlets to cover Kennedy negatively:

The issue here is not “is RFK Jr. beating Biden.” No, the issue here is, as long as it is issuing commands to media on how to cover the anti-Biden GOP impeachment inquiry - is the Biden White House quietly issuing a command to the same Biden-protecting media? Sending the message that they need to rev up negative coverage of Biden rival and critic RFK Jr.?

In fact, Kennedy recently said this to Fox’s Martha McCallum: 

It is surreal. My polling numbers are better than Ron DeSantis and/or any other candidate except for Biden and Trump. But I’m you know, even when they talk about me on the DNC channels, on CNN and MSNBC, they always refer to me, my first name as a longshot candidate, whereas everybody else has a candidacy that is taken seriously.

[...]

In other words? Already the liberal media is instinctively expanding its Biden-protecting coverage from the typical anti-GOP coverage and extending it to include Biden’s only opponent (so far) with any standing. Democrat Marianne Williamson, unlike RFK in single digits, doesn’t yet appear to count here.

The obvious question is: if the Biden White House is issuing marching orders to the media in terms of its coverage of the GOP impeachment inquiry - are they similarly issuing marching orders to the same media on how to cover RFK Jr? Or even simply whispering those RFK marching orders quietly, without the formal letter?

It wouldn’t surprise. But it is curious indeed that RFK Jr.’s coverage in places like the lefty Washington Post and New York Times treats RFK as some sort of right-wing prank and Covid crank and that coverage from what Kennedy calls “the DNC channels, on CNN and MSNBC” isn’t much better.

Hmmm.

Lord doesn't ask why Kennedy is running to the right-wing Fox News -- which would explain the "right-wing prank" part -- or explain why he is so upset that media outlets are reporting the truth that Kennedy is, in fact, a "Covid crank."

Deprecated CNS Right-Wing Blog Still Putting Out Biased Employment Reports
Topic: CNSNews.com

The dessicated right-wing blog that CNSNews.com has been reduced to apparently still has to do some semblence "business and economic reporting" because of a gift the the Media Research Center in memory of formber MRC board member Keith C. Wold. Thus, we are still graced with slanted and cherry-picked monthly reports on employment. Craig Bannister -- the blogger who's the only person left from when CNS was a "news" operation -- served up the usual bias on August's employment numbers in a Sept. 1 post:

In August, the unemployment rate jumped 0.3 points, from 3.5% 3.8%, as the number of long-term unemployed increased, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported Friday.

The nation’s unemployment rate jumped 0.3 percentage point to 3.8% in August, as the number of unemployed persons increased by 514,000 to 6.4 million.

Among the unemployed, the number of job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs increased by 294,000 to 2.9 million in August, offsetting a decrease of 280,000 in July.

The rise in the unemployment rate, coupled an increase in job losers, highlights ongoing challenges in the economy. Meanwhile, the number of persons employed part-time for economic reasons remained unchanged.

[...]

Adding to concerns, the BLS reported that the economy’s picture in recent months wasn’t as rosy as it initially reported:

• Total nonfarm payroll employment for June was revised down by 80,000, from +185,000 to +105,000.
• July was revised down by 30,000, from +187,000 to +157,000.
• Due to these revisions, employment in June and July combined was actually 110,000 lower than previously reported.
• The downward revisions make August look better in comparison, by comparing it to lower numbers in June and July.
  

Bannister's Oct. 6 post on September's numbers triedto be as blase as possible that the numbers stayed good:

Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by a surprisingly-high 336,000 in September, but most other economic indicators – such as the unemployment rate – showed little change from August, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported Friday.

September’s seasonally-adjusted 3.8% unemployment was unchanged from the previous month, as the number of unemployed persons remained at 6.4 million.

Both posts were described as having been :"funded in part" by the Wold gift. One has to wonder if the Wold familiy is happy that their gift is now attached to a right-wing blog instead of something that at least tried to pass for "news."

MRC Treats Djokovic As A Hero For His Anti-Vaxx Selfishness
Topic: Media Research Center

The anti-vaxxers at the Media Research Center spent the past couple of years hyping tennis star adn fellow anti-vaxxer Novak Djokovic as a victim for refusing to get a COVID vaccine and, thus, getting blocked from playing in tournaments in countries that had a vaccine requirement. As those vaccine requirements have been relaxed as the pandemic waned, the MRC is now treating Djokovic as a hero for his selfishness. Tierin-Rose Mandelburg served up some of that misguided hero worship in an Aug. 14 post:

And this ladies and gents - is why you don’t back down on what you know is the truth. 

Serbian tennis champion Novak Djokovic was on track to win numerous matches in the US Open last year but was denied entry to the states because he refused the COVID vax.

This year, due to the more relaxed restrictions on COVID-19, Djokovic was permitted to attend and his fans were thrilled.

Djokovic was denied entry to America after he refused to take the COVID-19 vaccine. At the time, it was a requirement, aka another ridiculous and unconstitutional mandate by the U.S. government, for all non-citizens to show full vaccination before entering the country.  

Standing firm in his choice, and his free will to make that choice, Djokovic dropped out of the final Grand Slam of the year to stick to his morals and principles, Daily Mail reported. He'd rather drop out of the competition than get the COVID-19 vaccine. After all, COVID-19 was not nearly as serious as the leftist media wanted you to believe and Djokovic is literally one of the best examples of a healthy man. 

Luckliy, his firmness paid off in the end. Djokovic was able to return to the U.S. this year for the tournament and began warmups in Cincinnati this week.

Actually, Tierin-Rose, it's not uncosntitutional for a government to take reasonable health measures to stem a pandemic, and vaccine requirements for foreigners are quite reasonable, whether or not you're a famous person. She concluded by declaring. "In a world full of sheep, be a Djokivic" -- even though she's acting rather sheep-like in perpetuating anti-vaxx conspiracy theories and pretending that Djokovic was acting out based on "morals and principles" and not out of selfishness.

John Simmons used a Sept. 5 post to cheer a fellow anti-vaxxer for defending Djokovic:

Men’s tennis star Novak Djokovic is once again in the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open after a victory last Saturday, reaching this stage of the tournament for a mind boggling 13th time (tied for second-most ever).

While the Serbian was in his Round of 16 match against Croatian Borna Gojo, New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers was watching from the luxury seats. In addition to being some of the best athletes in their respective sports, both Djokovic and Rodgers faced incredible scrutiny for choosing not to take the COVID-19 vaccine. 

Evidently, not only did Rodgers respect Djokovic’s greatness at his craft, but his courage to stand against vaccine tyranny. As such, when Rodgers posted on his Instagram story about his time at Arthur Ashe stadium, he made sure he reminded his followers about their commonality from standing against the vaccine mandates (a screenshot of this is below).

[...]

Similarly, Rodgers decided to not take the COVID vaccine despite the NFL practically forcing all of its personnel to do so. He also decided to take Ivermectin to fight COVID instead of getting the jab and used his platform to call out the absurdity of America’s COVID mandates and solutions to the “pandemic.”

It’s unfortunate that their examples didn’t inspire more people to take a similar stand. But, we know that at least two famous athletes with a capacity to think critically still exist.

Simmons didn't mention that there's no legitimate evidence that ivermectin works as a treatment for COVID. And, yes, the MRC has similarly praised Rodgers' anti-vaxxer selfishness as a virtue.

In a Sept. 20 post, Simmons whined that Djokovic's anti-vaxxer attitudes gave Rafael Nadal to win more tournaments and pointed out that Djokovic faced the consequences of his anti-vaxx refusal:

The debate over who is the greatest male tennis player is officially over.

This is thanks in large part to Rafael Nadal, the man who won several tournaments in 2022 that Novak Djokovic couldn't compete in, due to Djokovic's refusal to take the COVID vaccine.

Now of course, Djokovic winning his 24th Grand Slam title at the U.S. Open should have categorically ended all debate, but Nadal has also squashed any further discussion by saying Djokovic’s trophy case makes him better than any male to have ever played the sport.

[...]

“I believe that numbers are numbers and statistics are statistics. In that sense, I think he [Djokovic] has better numbers than mine and that is indisputable,” the Spanish legend said.

The Spaniard’s confession is significant because of how he reacted to Djokovic getting deported from Australia in 2022.

However, Djokovic was deported from Australia because he was unvaccinated, giving Nadal the inside track to get the record. Before the tournament began, he seemed to rub salt on Djokovic’s wound by gloating over the Serbian’s situation.

“I think if he wanted, he would be playing here in Australia without a problem,” the Spaniard said on Thursday. “He made his own decisions, and everybody is free to make their own decisions. But then there are some consequences.”

Nadal would end up winning that tournament and the 2022 French Open, putting significant distance between himself and Djokovic. But just over a year later, the GOAT is getting the last laugh, and the admission that Djokovic is the greatest shows Nadal knows he’s been beat. He will have one more year to catch Djokovic before he plans on retiring, but due to Nadal’s injuries and the Serbian’s form, that seems unlikely.

Lesson learned: don’t taunt the greats, even if they seem like they’re down for the count. Once they get back up, they come back with a chip on their shoulder and vengeance on their mind.

Simmons didn't explain how Nadal noting the indisputable fact that Djokovic's actions had consequences was "gloating" or "taunting."